Manuel Pereira is the agoraphobic president and dictator in the Latin American capital of Teresina. He took the reins of power by killing his predecessor. Because of the agoraphobia, a double must be found and trained to take the Pereira's place in public. But if one double can be found, so can another.
Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, t...more
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